Developing a Sustainable Rural Physician Pipeline for Oklahoma

In this Editorial, the author introduces the Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine (OSU-COM) “rural physician pipeline” model for the recruitment of medical students from rural Oklahoma and the training of medical students in rural health; she also discusses two articles in this issue of JAOA authored by faculty and staff who are intimately involved in helping to build the rural physician pipeline, which describe efforts to produce more primary care physicians for rural Oklahoma.